The estimable men at the Oxford Men’s Group have laid on two more evening talks (19:00) in the coming two months, in Oxford Town Hall, as usual. Videographer, Speakers’ Corner stalwart, and all-round top Welsh bloke Ewan Jones (“Jonesy”) will be giving a talk titled Excalibur: Why the West Must Reclaim the Sword of Power on 2 May, while the Rev Jules Gomes (“The Rebel Priest”) will be giving a talk titled, Feminism was women’s great enemy – until transgenderism came along. I’m looking forward to attending both talks, and invite you to join me.

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Enjoy (video, 22:22). Maybe the funniest in the series to date.

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Enjoy (video, 14:37).

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Normally, when I learn that a male friend or acquaintance plans to marry, I send him a complimentary copy of one of my books, The Fraud of the Rings, from my list of 10 international bestsellers. They were published through my own publishing concern, LPS publishing. Let me know if you’re looking for a publisher for your book(s).

Occasionally I’ll make an exception, and congratulate the man. And so it is with Philip Davies, who replied to my congratulatory email this morning, to say the wedding date hasn’t been set yet, but will be some time off. The Daily Mail today published an insightful interview of Philip’s partner, Esther McVey MP. We wish them a long and happy marriage.

Other than in the case of Philip Davies, don’t forget, Men shouldn’t marry.

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This morning I posted a piece with some information on Jonny “Itch” Fox, lead vocalist with The King Blues. Our interest in Jonny stems from his appearance in a forthcoming documentary about male victims of domestic violence, From the Darkness.

John James is the key man behind the documentary, and his £500 crowdfunder is here. Launched two days ago, £210 has already been donated by five good people. The published “story”:

I am producing a documentary to bring awareness to male victims of domestic violence. The documentary is being shot both here in the UK (England and Scotland) and also in the US and will include interviews with victims of abuse as well as talking to organisations that support victims of abuse. Our first interviewee was international singer iTCH of the band The King Blues.

Donors will be rewarded with a credit at the end of the documentary for their contribution and will get to see the 2 hour special before anyone else.

If you click on the “Updates” tab you’ll find an extract (1:20) from John James’s interview with Jonny.

Filming in the UK is being carried out by Anthony J Corniche III – Tom – the estimable man behind the filming and editing of the presentations at the last three ICMIs. He’s asked me to point out that this documentary is an example of ICMI funders’ work being continued, as promised.

Tom will be filming and editing the presentations at the Chicago conference (August 16-18). I’m reliably informed tickets are selling like hot cakes, so if you plan to go, don;t delay ordering your ticket(s). Tom’s crowdfunder for Chicago has reached £910, the target is £1,500.

John and Tom are doing very important work. Please donate to both crowdfunders, what you can afford. Thank you.

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Our thanks to Alan for this. The start of the piece, emphases ours:

A serial drunk driver who smashed into three cars after downing a bottle of wine was spared jail by a judge because she is a woman.

Victoria Parry, 30, was told by a woman judge at Warwick Crown Court that if she had been a man ‘it would have been straight down the stairs’ to prison.

The court heard the alcoholic was driving her Fiat Stilo when she ploughed into three vehicles before crashing into a ditch where her car burst into flames.

She was dragged from the burning wreck by other drivers after she crashed on the A46 near Stratford-upon-Avon on May 23 last year shortly before 7pm.

Parry, a shop manager who lives in a £235,000 home near Stratford-upon-Avon, already had two previous convictions for drunk driving when she appeared at court yesterday.

She admitted dangerous driving and was given a three-month suspended sentence.

Judge Sarah Buckingham said: ‘If Miss Parry was a man, there is no question it would have been straight down the stairs, because this is a shocking case of dangerous driving against a background of two previous convictions for excess alcohol.

‘But this offence was committed in May 2018 and she has not been in trouble since. [J4MB: Wow. Ms Parry has managed not to get caught drink driving over the past 11 months. Give her a medal.] She has clearly got an alcohol problem. She is, whether she admits it or not, an alcoholic.’

Addressing Parry, the judge added: ‘You richly deserve an immediate custodial sentence of 18 months. [J4MB: “But you own a vagina, and therefore cannot be held accountable for your actions”] I want to see whether you can really address the issues rather than paying lip service.

‘If you succeed, I will not make the custody immediate. If you don’t comply, I will conclude that you are not worthy of the chance.’

The court heard Parry almost caused a major crash when she overtook into oncoming traffic before ploughing into three vehicles.

Later in the piece:

Lucy Tapper, defending, said Parry started drinking up to two bottles of wine a day after being in an abusive relationship.

The standard claim made for female criminals, probably not even followed up. And the incident happened AFTER the relationship, anyway. Bottom line, a man is responsible for a female criminal’s actions, as usual. Maybe there was no such relationship, or if there was, she was the abuser.

Being in an abusive relationship should not be considered a mitigating circumstance. If women lack the moral agency to leave such relationships, they lack the moral agency rightly expected of adults, and should be denied the rights that come with adulthood e.g. the right to drive, the right to purchase alcohol. We would all be safer if Victoria Parry was denied those two rights, rather than being released to drink drive and possibly injure or kill people in future. Maybe it will take her killing people through her drunk driving, to finally be incarcerated.

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I look forward to watching this video (3:19:42) when time allows – but I’ve dipped into it at a number of points, and it looks terrific, as you’d expect with Cassie Jaye. One of her most precious photographs, presumably, following the screenings of The Red Pill in Norwich:

In a piece we published there’s a photo of Cassie with Barry Wright, who lives in Norwich. He spent over £10,000 on the screenings as well as the travel and accommodation of Cassie, Paul Elam, Erin Pizzey, Dr Randomercam and myself. A fine man, we gave him a Churchill award.

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Jonny “Itch” Fox hails from South London, and is the lead vocalist and ukulelist (I’m fairly sure I’ve never typed that word before) of The King Blues. At the age of 13 he was homeless, selling copies of The Big Issue to survive.

In 2014, during a period in which when the band was not active, Itch enjoyed considerable international sucess with the song Another Man. The associated video has to date attracted almost 1.9 million views, and it’s here (3:45). I can’t recall when I last enjoyed a music video so much. It’s a gem.

J4MB doesn’t generally go in for reviewing music and musicians, but there’s a reason for this post, which will become clear later today.

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The BBC published this half an hour ago. 10 minutes ago, BBC Newsnight broadcast footage of a team of Israeli scientists talking about the failed mission. Not a woman in sight. At least one lesson is clear. Missions fail when women aren’t in charge.

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It’s just come to my attention that William Collins posted a substantive piece on the black hole picture story earlier today – here – before I posted my far less substantive one. We look forward to someone determining the male/female ratio in the list of scientists in the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, who Collins names.

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